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TIL Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, spent 10 years of his life programming an operating system to talk to God

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W7LYA TIL that raccoons have a territory that ranges from as little as 7 acres for females within cities to as much as 12,000 acres for males in the prairies.
YGxd TIL of Burton Joseph, a Jew who representing the ACLU, defended the right for Neo-Nazis to march through Skokie, IL—a community where 1 in 6 residents were Holocaust survivors—because he believed in freedom of speech.
W7O6N TIL In 2023, Researchers re-analyzed lunar dust collected during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission and found evidence that the Moon formed about 40 million years earlier than previously thought. The proportion of lead isotopes indicated that the sample was at least 4.46 billion years old
BrNED In China, a three-digit score could dictate your place in society
W7y5o TIL: Spartans magistrates would declare war on their slaves every year so they were free to harm or kill them